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| Species | Green Child or Leanai Glasa |
| Order | Faerie |
| Classification | Vaettir |
| Court | Summer |
| Sphere | Flora |
| Origin | All faeries are born Nameless and must be given a True Name; green children are given botanical/floral names |
| Lifespan | 2,000 years |
| Habitat | Deep forests |
| Food | Raw vegetables. Broad beans are their favorite |
| Description | Green children appear to be childlike humans with green skin and plant-features growing off their bodies. These features can be from any kind of plant, of any color, and on any part of their bodies. Those who start eating cooked foods lose their plant-features and their skin becomes more human-like. |
| Procreation | Procreation among the leanai glasa takes many forms. Sexual intercourse and pollination are the two most common, but other botanical forms of reproduction are possible, depending on the bodies involved. The end result will be a seed the size of a human heart that is planted in a tunnel underground and given a botanical True Name. It will grow into a small green child within a year. If they are not given a botanical True Name, the seed grows into a different kind of faerie. These are usually given to nearby mortals to raise. |
| Esoterica | Green children are beings of dream energy, poioumenon, and greenlight aether. Like all faeries, they are users of The Tradition, a form of poioumenonic lore empowered by dream energies. They also use solar, summer, earthpower, currents, viridian, spring, rebirth, beltane, and harvest aether. Thorn energy, mana, mashoaab, sap, nectar yahas, kor, symbolism, and spirits. |
| The Tradition | Green children have these basic faerie powers:
Green children can also influence a plant by dreaming about it intentionally, using bedtime stories to shape their dreams. They can learn the language of a plant by sleeping in its leaves for a fortnight. By touching a leaf and whispering a special rhyme, a green child can make that leaf shine with greenlight aether. They use these to light their burrow homes. They can reshape earth and stone if four or more leanai glasa are singing and gesturing in certain ways. This is how they dig their burrow homes. Any fruit seed that they plant on the first day of spring will grow into a fruit-bearing plant within a season. A green child who has lost their faerie powers becomes able as a human to speak to and influence cattle. |
| Glamour | Green children can take the glamour of a plant by drinking dew from its body every morning for a year; this glamour will last until they drink the dew of another plant (even just once). They tend to pick a specific plant for long periods of their life. |
| Weaknesses | Iron or any alloyed metal containing iron (including living iron or redsteel) harms them. An iron or similar horsehoe nailed over a door will prevent a leanai glasa from walking through that door. Arsenic is also especially effective against them, and holy baptism will cause them to become human and die. If they eat cooked foods, they begin to lose their powers and become human, because they lose the faerie parts of their True Name. They hate tobacco smoke. If they do not speak their True Name backward into the same mirror they used to vanish into within 30 seconds, they lose it. If they lose their True Name, they have a fortnight to find it again. Those who fail either become a hag or a boggin, get taken by the Hunt, or are corrupted by brown aether and become maeros. Brown aether and uafas harm and corrupt them. |
| National Culture | In their own nations, the leanai glasa live in burrow-cities underneath dense forests. These forests are impenetrable except through tunnels undernearth, so thick is their undergrowth. The burrow of a green child is a series of tunnels connected amidst the roots of the forest, lit by leaf-lanterns empowered by their lore. These lanterns feed special garden beds grown on their ceilings, where they have their beans and leafy vegetables--and their children. Most of the tunnels are blanketed in moss, making them beautiful green passages. Within the forest itself, they walk amongst the underbrush and protect the plants with their powers. They consider themselves the tenders of the trees in their home forests, and they will kill intruders if they threaten the wood. They go up to the surface each day to collect nuts, leaves, and water. Leanai glasa live in a matrirachal gatherer society (they have no hunters, as they do not eat meat). The whole burrow takes care of the children, from seed to adulthood. After they grow into children from seeds they are toddlers. In this time, they are encouraged to sleep amongst different plants to see which they prefer. This will shape their bodies and glamours. By the time they are teenagers, they begin to learn specific tasks amongst the community, and by adulthood (about 25), they are expected to be fully engaged members of the burrow. Leanai glasa have many genders, most plant-related; romance and sex are casual. Marriage is unknown amongst them. Elders and druids lead them. Those who commune with the trees guide them, and those who have the most power to protect the forest are their most revered. The inmortal Manifest Verdarbor is their queen; she lives in a massive oak tree's roots at the heart of the forest Green Arbor. |
| Summer Culture | As subjects of the Summer Court, leanai glasa are mostly left to themselves in their deep forests. Their queen pays tribute to Mab, and in times of crisis, they send their warriors, herbalists, druids, and tunnelers to serve the Summer Army. In exchange, they are protected from their enemies in the Winter and Unseelie Courts. Their queen earns them great respect Those green children who leave their forests to be part of the Summer Court's other regions often find themselves sorted by which plant they represent. Floers and trees find themselves amongst the more revered fey at court. At the Court of Mab, there are many floral leanai glasa amongst the aristocratic class. Other green children are relegated to lower classes. The most common roles they have as serfs or workers in the Court are farmer, gardener, druid, forester, herbalist, alchemist, cook, tunneler, and field guide. Their powers over plants and nature see them supporting the homes and gardens of other fey. |
| Other Courts | Among the Seelie Courts, leanai glasa are seen as serf or worker class no matter what their form. They work alongside other rural fey as farmers, gardeners, foresters, herbalists, or cooks. Some are allowed into the knighthood if they prove themselves, but it is rare to see a leanai glasa amongst the aristocrats. At the Winter Court, only the green children who represent cold-climate plants are allowed. Others are killed or enslaved (or die naturally from the harsh conditions). Those who can survive the wintry climes are usually serfs, though edelweiss (nobles) and fir (warrior) leanai glasa are revered. In the Unseelie Court, thorned plants are revered. Some few are allowed into the aristocratic class. The rest are serfs or slaves. Among the Kindly Court, flower leanai glasa are most revered, but all green children are welcomed there and have places of honor. The Unkindly Court kills them on sight or corrupts them into maeros. |
| Mortal Interactions | Green children are known for leaving "broken" (non-botanically Named faeries) with mortals. They are also known for killing mortals who harm their forests. Most notable, though, is the fact that they can become mortals if they eat too much cooked food (or are subjected to holy baptism). In these cases, they simply blend into mortal (usually human) society. Some die young, but those who do not usually retain their sexual freedom and gain a power over cattle. |
| Notables | Verdarbor, Queen of the Forest, Green Child Manifest; Flowerpot, Summer Court Liasion |
| Special Classes | Druid, Glasa Wyrder, Greenguard, Burrow-builder, Cainteoircrann (tree speaker), Garraiodoir (gardener), Tread Bo (cowherd), Forester |
| Sample Stats | PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 9 AWA 8 WIL 9 ROG 9 Glamour 8 Vanish (30 seconds) Bedtime Storytelling 10 Shining Leaf 11 Earthsong 8 Fruit Planting 15 |
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